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IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MAKING DIPPEI) CANDLES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERNV:

Be it known that I, PETER GOITSTEIN, of Houghton, in the county of Houghton, in the State of Michi` gan, have invented a new and improved Apparatus i for Making Dipped Candl'es; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which'will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in` which drawingl Figure 1 is a vertcalcross-section of an apparatus made according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section. i'

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to improve the apparatus or means employed for making candles of the kind known as dipped, and thereby'to facilitate the'manufacture of such candles, and improve the product.

The invention involves a change in the method or process in this respect, among others, that the candles, while being formed or built up, are kept stationary, and the frames or ports, from 'which they aresuspended, are only removed after the candles are fully formed.

The letter A designates a car or movable frame, mounted on wheels H, which roll 011 a track, I, laid on the iioor of the'dipping-room, or place where the manufacture is carried on. The track is laid in a line with and beneath the ports or frames, from which the wicks, seen in red outline in the drawing, are suspended. There are as many such tracks as there are `lines or ranges ot` ports, andthe tracks maybe connected to euch other by switches, or other devices, to enable the car A to go from one to the other. The car is hollow, and has suspended within it a dippingwat or eistern, B, the fallow in which is kept supplied at a proper height, and it is kept in a melted state and hot, by steam-pipes arranged within and .around the cister'rr, or by means of a furnace inthe lower part'of the car, or by any other method preferred. The cistern is suspended upon double sets of straps, 7C, whose ends are fastened respectively to the bottom of the cistern Band to the periphery of a shaft, D, which is mounted in the ends of the car, oneend of the shaft extending out far enough to receive a. crank, by which it is rotated. The straps C are fastened to the shaft in reverse order, one being passed over and the other under the shaft, so that when the shaft is turned .both straps will'be either w'ound thereon or unwound at the same time. Thesaid straps are carried from the shaft in opposite directions, and go through the sides ofthe car, and beneath and around pulleys E E, whence they go upwards over other pulleys E E,

arrangedon the upper part of the car, and thence downwards to the bottom ofthe cisternnvhere they aref fastened, as shown in iig. 1, I balance the cistern by means of aiweight, F,- suspended by a strap from the middle of shaft D.

When the cistern is in its lower position, as in the drawing, the strap of the weight is wound up on the shaft, and ez'ce versa, The oiHce of'the weight4 is to counterbalauce the cistern, and enable .the workman to operate the apparatus with facility. When the straps C are wound upontheshaft,V the cistern B ascendspuntil its bottom reaches the upper sets of. pulleys E, and,fby its ascent, allows the wicks suspended from the ports' or wick-frames to become immersed in the molten tallow, the weight F assisting the ascent of thecistern, and relieving the 'workman'of a portion of the labor. The cistcrn is next caused to descend to its lower position, the weight serving to regulate the rapidity of its descent, and the car and cistern are then pushed along the track I to the -next division of wicks, which are immersed in the same manner.y When the wicks have been dipped or immersed, I remove the drops of tallow which hang upon their bottoms, and give their butts n square n p formby means of the devices next described, whichA act in conjunction with the car and cistern.

To one side ofthe ear, I hinge a bracket, G, which is held up in a horizontal position by the hinged brace K. This bracket supports a slab or smooth board, J, which is loose 'on thebracket, and is taken nii` after each dipping, and is put on the top of the cistern, the slab being so made as to cover it completely. When the slab is in place upon the cistern, the car is brought beneath the candles, and the ,Acistern is raised by means of the crank until the slab cornes against the butts of kthc candles, and removes the drops that vhang on their end's by a single operation, and gives the candles a square form. The bracket G enables the operator to have the slab always at command to be` pnl; on the cistern, and the work proceeds with ease and dispatch.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by .Letters Patent, is Y 1. The combination and arrangement, substantially as described, of the weighted cstern B, car A,.and straps C, for the purpose s et forth.

2. The combination ofthe cistern B, car A', aud track I, substantially as and for the purpose described. 3. The combination and arrangement of the slab or-board with the weighted cistern B, substantially ras Y and for the purpose described. p l

4. The new process 'ofi producing dipped candles by raising the molten tallow or other liquid 'to the wicks,

substantially Vas described. l

PETER R. GOTTSTEIN,

Witnesses JAMES D. EARLE, EUcLEAUsr' Baum. 

